Keepers at a Japanese zoo are suspected of killing dozens of squirrels after giving them medicine used to kill parasites. Tokyo's Inokashira Park Zoo has launched a probe into the incident after ...

Risu, as you might have guessed, is the Japanese word for “squirrel.” Don’t worry, though, Kamedo didn’t use delicious dark magic to transform actual woodland creatures into sweet snacks. These are ...

A Japanese zoo is said to have unintentionally massacred 31 of its 40 squirrels with treatments intended to kill parasites. Keepers at the Inokashira Park Zoo in Tokyo injected the animals with ...

Japanese social media users have fallen in love with a squirrel spotted at an animal park in Tokyo, thanks to its curvaceous anatomy. A Twitter user shared a photograph of the squirrel ...

Laboratory analysis concluded that the Japanese squirrels at the Inokashira Park Zoo in Musashino, western Tokyo, likely died of poisoning after ingesting a lethal cocktail of parasiticidal agents ...

The Tokyo Zoological Park Society said on Dec. 11 that 31 Japanese squirrels, or “nihon-risu,” died within a week of being exposed to multiple pesticides at Inokashira Park Zoo in Musashino ...

Some flying squirrels have only one mating cycle per year but others, such as the Japanese dwarf flying squirrel, have two. The time of year for mating and birth depend on the species as well.